I have recently been reading an excellent book by Matt Mason titled The Pirate’s Dilemma. This book talks about how youth culture is reinventing capitalism.The book is very well written and researched. The core theme behind the book is how the culture of piracy (that’s you and me) causes change in the capitalist world. While…
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Netscape: Let the Clone Wars begin!
Earlier today on the Netscape Blog it was announced that the impending shutdown of the social news experiment at Netscape dot com was true. Visitors to Netscape.com will see a more traditional news experience very soon. Don’t worry, the social news site isn’t going away! We will keep you updated on where you will be…
New Digg says, “You must watch videos!!!”
OK, is this some sort of joke? Why is Digg forcing me to include at least one category of videos? After the last site redesign Digg removed videos from the front page all together. Now that they have added them back they are forcing me to include at least one category of videos in my…
How To: Correctly game a social news site
So, you think you found a way to game a social news site such as Digg or Netscape? You think you are so smart because you are emailing links to your friends and asking them to digg your story? Guess again chump! You are about to run into the cold hard door of failure. The…
Dealing with too much traffic
I recently moved hmtk.com and a few other websites to their own dedicated server. There are currently ten sites running on the same server as hmtk.com. A few days ago one of those sites got dugg. While that one site was on digg’s homepage the server load was in the 10 to 60 range. A…
Digg: Open up the Bury Data Petition
Attention all current and former digg users. There is an online petition for you to sign if you believe that digg should open up the bury information. To: Digg Staff Digg has become a slow RSS feed for big media companies. In all honesty anyone could setup an RSS feed with a few of the…
Kevin Rose finally grows a pair
‘There has been a lot of trouble at Digg in the last 24 hours. Some stories were posted that tell all about hacking the security for HD-DVD. At first Digg removed these stories and Jay Adelson blogged on the Digg blog about why. This then blew up in their face and numerous stories began to…
Are your Digg friends digging you up or down?
A while back Digg announced some changes to their algorithm in regards to fixing their perceived gaming problem. There was a lot of shouting and back and forth on the subject but, eventually, things quieted down and people moved on. In the intervening time I reported on a few cases of reverse gaming where people…
Who controls Digg?
In the past, the top digg users were accused of controlling digg. Digg responded to this by dropping the top users list. Some folks still think that the digg front page is controlled by a small minority of users. Well, they are partially right in that belief. Not right because the small group controls the…
Has Digg integrated duggmirror?
This is strange. I was just taking a quick look over on Digg and after clicking on a story that was posted on a blog the direct Digg link took me right to duggmirror! Digg LinkStory LinkDuggmirror link This is very strange because the direct link to the story works fine! The blog is not…